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Cultural Arts Events
JCC Cultural Arts
Hanukkah Celebrations
In preparation for Hanukkah, the JCC is hosting its first Sip and Pour Candle Workshop on December 15 from 6:30-8 p.m. at the Benderson Family Building. In conjunction with The Drunkin Candle Shop, participants will get to make and take 2 candles from a choice of 6 different scents. Wine bingo will be played to win prizes while candles solidify and light snacks will be served. Registration required by December 1. JCC member $45 | Guests $60.
Ithaca Klezmer Quartet
After a triumphant Buffalo debut at Kleinhans Music Hall, the Ithaca Klezmer Quartet returns for a Hanukkah concert, Sunday, December 18th in the Maxine and Robert Seller Theater at 2:00 p.m. Featuring Yiddish Hanukkah classics, soulful Hasidic Hanukkah melodies, klezmer dance tunes, and some Hebrew favorites, this is the best way to ring in the first night.
Led by Buffalo native David Zakalik (piano/accordion), the quartet features Ithaca-based Klezmorim Jennie Lavine (clarinet), Ryan Zawel (trombone/tuba), and Greg Ezra (drums). These four Klezmorim have been playing traditional Ashkenazic music (Klezmer) together for over a decade, and are thrilled to be returning to Buffalo to celebrate the Festival of Lights. Following the concert, enjoy Hanukkah treats. This event is free and open to the community with a suggested donation of $10. Registration is required at www. jccbuffalo.org.
Continuing the Holiday Celebration, on Tuesday, December 20, from 7-8:30 p.m., the JCC and Congregation Beth Abraham (celebrating its centennial year) present a multi-media program, “They
Don’t Write em’ Like That Anymore — the Great Jewish Song Lyricists of
the 20th Century”, conceived by Marty Kerker. Happening at the JCC Benderson Family Building in the Seller Theater, the program spans the American musical eras from Tin Pan Alley through rock and roll and will include biographical information interspersed with live musical performances by jazz vocalist Barbara Levy Daniels. Songs by the likes of Ira Gershwin, Lorenz Hart, Gus Kahn, Sam Lewis, Dorothy Fields, Hal David, Gerry Goffin, and Bob Dylan will be projected on a screen for you to be able to sing and tap along to. Hanukkah-themed reception to follow! This event is free and open to the community with a suggested donation of $10. Registration is required at www.jccbuffalo.org.
JCC Studio Art Students Exhibit
The JCC Adult Studio in Art Class is excited to once again have an exhibit of their work in the Bunis Family Art Gallery at the Benderson Family Building. The once-annual exhibit took a few years off during the pandemic and is now back with new pieces from past and current students. The exhibit will be on display in the gallery through the end of December, with an artist reception which is free and open to the public on Tuesday, December 6 from 5-7 p.m. in the Lippman Lounge on the second floor of the Benderson Building. Meet the artists, tour the gallery, and enjoy light refreshments.
CEPA: Photos & the Holocaust
Faye Schulman practicing with a rifle as a member of the partisan Resistance in Eastern Poland in 1943. Thousands of the fighters were, like her, Jews. “Jews did not go like sheep to the slaughter,” she said. “I was a photographer. I have pictures. I have proof.”
Photography and the Holocaust, Then and Now
11 Botsford Place (off of Hertel, between Elmwood and Delaware) December 1 5-8:00 p.m.
Join CEPA Gallery at Mirabo Press on December 1 for a fundraiser supporting Photography and the Holocaust, Then and Now, a major exhibition and community outreach project under development. Photography & the Holocaust will investigate tribalism–the inability of many to accept those who are different from themselves–its links to antisemitism and other forms of racism, and how that mindset results in the oppression and violence we consistently witness.
This comprehensive exhibition will feature over 15 contemporary artists whose practice incorporates new and reimagined works that grapple with the Holocaust and its enduring impact today. The project will include a virtual walkthrough and online community gallery, public art installations, a virtual and live speaker series, community conversations, youth and adult workshops, and community programming, as well as a virtual Holocaust timeline and publication with essays by historians and scholars.
You’re invited to preview some of the works that will be included and to learn more about the many partners and array of community outreach activities being planned. Meet and hear from Claire Leggett, CEPA’s Acting Executive Director; Robert Hirsch, project curator and producer; Robert Fleming, Mirabo co-founder; and Noah Breuer, new UB art professor and featured project artist.
You are invited to join in supporting this project. An anonymous donor will be matching all gifts up to $5,000! While you’re at Mirabo, double your experience and enjoy the 2022 Screenprint Biennial currently on display. For more
